With the digital transformation accelerating in Africa, the telecommunications sector has taken an important place in the economies. The Guinean regulator has decided to adopt a precise modus operandi to face the current and future challenges of the sector. The Regulatory Authority for Posts and Telecommunications of Guinea (ARPT) unveiled its new strategic development plan (PSD)...

State-owned telco Societe des Telecoms de Guinee (Sotelgui) is planning to re-enter the mobile market as Guinea Telecom in the first half of 2023, Agence Ecofin writes, citing telecom minster Ousmane Gaoual. According to the official, the operator will launch with 4G and 5G technologies to ensure that it does not lag behind its competitors....

SOTELGUI went bankrupt in 2012. Ten years later, the multiple actions of the authorities to relaunch the incumbent operator’s activities have still not resulted in a telecoms market where competition has increased. The Guinean government is still determined to resurrect the Société des Télécommunications de Guinée (SOTELGUI), now Guinée Télécoms. Bamba Oliano, Secretary General of the...

Guinea’s Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunications (L’Autoritie de Regulation des Postes et Telecommunications, ARPT) has announced that it will begin deactivating unregistered SIM cards from 2 May. During a press conference on 2 March, ARPT director general Yacouba Cisse explained that Decision D/001/ARPT/CNRPT/2021, which entered into force on 31 December 2020, requires subscribers to provide a national identity card,...

Since the loss of its telecoms independence in 2012, Guinea remains determined to regain it. The country relies on the support of international partners to achieve this. The President of the Republic of Guinea Alpha Condé said during the Council of Ministers, held on Tuesday February 23, that the country has reached an agreement with the...